Evyatar Av-Ron received his Ph.D. (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics) from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
in 1992. His graduate studies were conducted with Dr. Lee Segel and Dr. Hanna Parnas (Hebrew University, Neurobiology) focusing
on minimal biophysical neuron models for computer simulation of small neural networks (lobster/crab cardiac network). During his
postdoctoral training at Ecole Normale Superieue (Paris, France) and French national institute of health (INSERM) he continued his
research in computational neuroscience studying insect olfaction and the mammilian ocular vestibular system. From 1997 to 2001,
he worked in the high-tech software industry, on an object-oriented database system, and a rule-based knowledge system. His M.Sc.
from the Weizmann Institute (Israel) was in Artificial Intelligence.

SNNAP contribution:
Designed and wrote the SNNAP tutorial manual. This hands-on manual takes the user through several computational neuroscience examples, showing how non programmers can develop neural models and run simulations with SNNAP. The goal of the SNNAP team is to provide a user-friendly tool which may be used for both teaching computational neuroscience and carrying out computational neuroscience research .

Currently involved with the design of an object-oriented version of SNNAP.